Most of the time, the Earth works as it should. Water can be counted upon to rise, mist, and fall again when heavy. We get variations of this, of course: fog, snow, and hail, for example. But for the most part, the cycle is quite normal — except when it really, really isn’t.
In this episode, we explore two specific cases of odd precipitation: North Carolina’s blood rain in 1884 and Alabama’s eel rain in 1892. One thing to note: instances of “blood rain” that have been investigated don’t turn out to be blood. The case we discuss is likely an exception.
But first, Zoey’s here with her Something Spooky: Haunts from the Workplace!
Sources:
https://study.com/learn/lesson/spectroscope-diagram-parts-function.html
“Science and the Showers of Blood,” The Patron and Gleaner, Dec. 10, 1896; via Newspapers.com.
Unnamed article in The Charlotte Observer, Feb. 27, 1903; via Newspapers.com. (The one that begins with, “A London dispatch…”)
Book of Revelation 8:7, New International Reader’s Version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation
https://www.britannica.com/place/Armageddon
VENABLE, F. P. “‘FALL OF BLOOD’ IN CHATHAM COUNTY.” Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 1 (1883): 38–40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24330043.
Maxwell, Tom. “‘For the Scrutiny of Science and the Light of Revelation’: American Blood Falls.” Southern Cultures 18, no. 1 (2012): 93–107. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26217369. (This is the article I recommend in the episode!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_rain
“7 of the South’s strangest unsolved mysteries” by Kelly Kazek, AL.com, Aug. 24, 2015.
“It’s Raining Eels,” The Irish Times, March 18, 2000.
“The Day It Rained Eels,” posted by Spoonbillhank on The Fisheries Blog, Nov. 18, 2019. (This blog author reposted an article (“It Rained Strange Eels” by The New York Sun, published on May 29, 1892) and gave thoughts on information relayed in the Southern Mysteries podcast episode “It Rained Strange Eels.”)
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